Category: British
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Variations On A Theme
Let’s have a look at two sketches, completely independent to one another, written an ocean apart, but which demonstrate very well how two people can arrive at almost exactly the same idea. Here’s the first, from an 1989 episode of The Kids In The Hall. And here’s the second, from A Bit Of Fry And…
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Dee In Demand
Here’s a write up of Jack Dee that appeared in The Stage on Thursday 3rd March 1994.
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A Pinch Of Snuff With Hale And Pace
What I like about trawling through old newspaper clippings, sifting through the grit to find some gold, is when you learn something new. Like this, for example, the ITV version of Daziel and Pascoe, starring Hale and Pace. A Pinch Of Snuff ran for three episodes in 1994, was based on the novel by Reginald…
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Hale And Pace Junctions
Here’s a couple of junctions for Hale And Pace. This first one is from 1998, when the show was on every Thursday night. Could have sworn it was only ever broadcast on Sundays. Then there this one, from the Yorkshire region, when they clearly hadn’t sold any adverts.
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Clips And Ladders
We’ve looked at the sitcom Snakes And Ladders before, written as it was by the brilliant Marks And Gran, and co-starring Adrian Edmondson. Here’s how the first episode of the series was reviewed by James Green in The Stage, on the 12th October 1989 (just a few days before the writers’ other sitcom, Birds Of…
